[MNG-3034] Import a profile into a POM

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.6
• Component/s: Profiles
• Assignee: Brett Porter
• Reporter: Paul Spencer
• Created: 04/Jun/07 10:02
• Updated: 21/Sep/11 11:50
• Resolved: 18/Dec/08 06:10

Description

I am finding that profiles are very powerful. As I make more use of them across projects, many of which are unrelated, I find myself copying a profile from one POM to another. Placing profiles in a POM the is extended is impractical because each change to a profile in the POM will prompt a release cycle of the POM and every project that extends the POM.

Related thread:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg67252.html

Below is how I would expect to use profile importing.

***

• POM of project which imports the profiles cargo_tomcat_remote and
• cargo_jetty_remote and selenium-integration-test.
  ***
  <project>
  ...
  <groupId>com.foo.applications</groupId>
  <artifactId>webapp_1</artifactId>
  ...
  <profiles>
  <profile>
  <id>cargo_tomcat_remote</id>
  <groupId>com.foo.profiles</groupId>
  <artifactId>cargo</artifactId>
  <version>1.0</version>
  <activation>
  ...
  </activation>
  </profile>
  <profile>
  <id>cargo_jetty_remote</id>
  <groupId>com.foo.profiles</groupId>
  <artifactId>cargo</artifactId>
  <version>1.0</version>
  <!-- used activation rules in imported profile -->
  ...
  </profile>
  <profile>
  <id>selenium-integration-test</id>
  <groupId>com.foo.profiles</groupId>
  <artifactId>selenium</artifactId>
  <version>1.0</version>
  <!-- used activation rules in imported profile -->
  ...
  </profile>
  </project>

***

• POM of project which defines 2 profiles, cargo_tomcat_remote and
• cargo_jetty_remote.
  ***
  <project>
  ...
  <groupId>com.foo.profiles</groupId>
  <artifactId>cargo</artifactId>
  <version>1.0</version>
  ...
  <profiles>
  <profile>
  <id>cargo_tomcat_remote</id>
  ...
  </profile>
  <profile>
  <id>cargo_jetty_remote</id>
  <activation>
  ...
  </activation>
  </profile>
  </project>

Paul Spencer

Issue Links

• is related to: MNG-1388 Transitive Dependencies in a profile are not used